Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked'… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
God is always playing chess with us. He makes moves in our life & then sits back to see how we react… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the… — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor Copy Share Image
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
In chess, the elite sacrifice the pawns to save the King. In the gospel, God sacrifices the King to save the pawns. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
